scholarly journals don't tell me women aren't the stuff of heroes // 漫云女子不英雄

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 34-45
Author(s):  
Mia Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
Intergenerational Effects ◽  
The People ◽  
Household Environment ◽  
Sense Of Home ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

This zine explores the intergenerational effects of my family’s forced migration—from Changsha to Taipei during the Cultural Revolution, and from Taipei to Toronto after my mother was born. I grew up in a difficult household environment, in large part because of my mother’s PTSD: a direct result of the trauma she has experienced throughout her lifetime in the diaspora. I now live with PTSD, as well. ”Don’t tell me women aren’t the stuff of heroes” is a meditation on displacement from home—across generations and borders—and the experience of finding a sense of home in the people who have hurt you the most.

The Controversy Over Modernism, 1979–84

1985 ◽  
Vol 104 ◽  
pp. 641-656
Author(s):  
D. E. Pollard
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The People ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

The leadership in literature and the arts that replaced the appointees of the “gang of four” in the late 1970s was formed of the old guard. Their policies were restorationist. They reversed the judgments of the Cultural Revolution, giving approval to all the theories then tarred black, notably “the broad road for realism” (which allowed for artistic diversity), “the deepening of realism” (which meant that not everything needed to be depicted as fine and dandy), and “middle characters” (intended to break the monopoly of proletarian heroes). They interpreted the principle that literature should serve socialism and serve the people relatively liberally. Serving the people meant “the whole people” (a formulation for which Zhou Yang had been condemned); and when the formula of “workers, peasants and soldiers” was repeated, it was pointed out that “workers” included brain workers. The enjoyment principle was also invoked.

scholarly journals The Silent Revolution: Decollectivization from Below during the Cultural Revolution

2016 ◽  
Vol 227 ◽  
pp. 796-811 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Dikötter
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
Deng Xiaoping ◽  
Planned Economy ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The People ◽  
Silent Revolution ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

AbstractThis article uses fresh archival evidence to point at a rarely noticed phenomenon, namely the undermining of the planned economy by a myriad of dispersed acts of resistance during the last years of the Cultural Revolution. Villagers reconnected with the market in some of the poorest places in the hinterland as well as in better-off regions along the coast. This silent, structural revolution often involved the quiet acquiescence, if not active cooperation, of local cadres. In conclusion, the article suggests that if there was an architect of economic reforms, it was the people and not Deng Xiaoping: as with his counterparts in Central Europe and the Soviet Union, Deng had little choice but to go along with the flow.

The Fall of Lin Piao

1973 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 427-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Bridgham
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
The State ◽  
Effective Control ◽  
The People ◽  
New Republic ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

By 1964 Mao Tse-tung had lost effective control over much of the Party hierarchy set up by his “successor,” and also over the state administrative apparatus… Liu Shao-ch'i and his like-minded comrades utilized the Mao cult in theory and slighted Maoism in practice… Mao was convinced that the people and Party rank and file were with him but were misled by his disloyal opposition. … Edgar Snow, “Aftermath of the Cultural Revolution,” inThe New Republic, 10 April 1971.

"CULTURAL REVOLUTION" POLICY IN UZBEKISTAN AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION METHODS

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 22-29
Author(s):  
Yulduz Ergasheva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
National Culture ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Soviet Government ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The People ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

The article analyzes the implementation of the policy of the "cultural revolution" in Uzbekistan, its essence and ideological foundations, as well as the activities of the Soviet government on the Sovietization of national culture. The positive and negative consequences of the introduction of Soviet cultural policy on the spiritual and cultural life of the people are highlighted

scholarly journals REMEMBERING XIAO SHAN IN BA JIN ESSAYS THE WOUNDS OF THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION

Bambuti ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-68
Author(s):  
Nadira Alkaff ◽  
Hin Goan Gunawan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Dark Period ◽  
Mao Zedong ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Living World ◽  
The People ◽  
Ba Jin ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

The Cultural Revolution era was a dark period in Chinese history. The resistance to the power of Chairman Mao by literati people has resulted in deep wounds, as a result of intimidation, bad stigma, exclusion, and even imprisonment which often ends in death. Ba Jin's essay Remembering Xiao Shan can be seen as a mirror reflecting the deep wounds experienced by the author who is accused of being part of a counterrevolutionary group. Not only himself, but his beloved wife also had to bear the wounds of the Cultural Revolution. This study uses a hermeneutical analysis model to explore the author's "living world" in the text Reminiscing Xiao Shan about the sorrow experienced by himself, his fellow authors who were labeled as part of right-wing resistance, and the people he loved during repressive times under the control of Mao Zedong. The Cultural Revolution was long gone, but the wounds it caused were not easy to heal, and so Ba Jin documented it in the text in the form of an essay. In the end, time has proved that the idea of ​​resistance carried out by people like Ba Jin is irresistible, as has been proven by the current capitalistic economic style in China. The close people, even Ba Jin's wife were indeed neglected by the Red Guards, but their thoughts are still alive today.

Recent Developments in Chinese Social Science, 1977–79

1979 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 593-607 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Braybrooke
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

In the dozen years or more since the Cultural Revolution Chinese social scientists have been through a period of relative inactivity. This is now said to have been the direct result of the interference of the “gang of four.” Since the disappearance of the “gang of four” in October 1976, social science has undergone a revival and social scientists are once again active.

Castration for the People

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaofei Tian
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
The People ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

Chinese socialist peasant writer, Hao Ran (1932-2008), was well-known for his novels, Bright Sunny Sky and The Great Road of Golden Light, and remained the best-selling author during the Cultural Revolution period (1966-1976). This essay focuses on his less-studied short stories, all but one published between 1958 and 1960. Through a discussion of the politics of his revisions of his early stories, the essay argues that, far from being simplistic transmissions of a socialist ideology, these stories are often unintentionally complicated representation of gender, class, desire, and sexuality in China’s “socialist construction” era. As the Cultural Revolution represents a climax of the epic socialist battle against si, a word that encompasses a wide range of meanings from selfishness and self-interest to anything personal and private, the pruning and clipping performed by Hao Ran to his early stories are ultimately paralleled by the violence committed within a text. The last part of the essay analyzes a story written at the end of the Cultural Revolution period, which demonstrates a discursive structure of violence and embodies the obsessive quest for transparency and the spiritual violence of the Cultural Revolution itself.

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